Izumi Muto

Materials Electrochemistry Laboratory, Associate Professor, Doctor of Engineering

^. Corrosion Science and Engineering: stainless steel, titanium, passivity, localized corrosion, pitting, crevice corrosion, micro-electrochemical cell

^. Service Life Prediction of Corrosion-resistant alloys: atmospheric environment, numerical simulation, modeling, aerosol, wet & dry, electrochemical analysis

^. Electrochemical Surface Processing: conducting polymer coating, chemical conversion coating, chromate alternatives, acid pickling, descaling process

^. Junichi. Hamada, Izumi Muto, Satoshi Ogawa, Chikara Ito, Masanori Hiro, Junichi Kozuka, Yoshihito Yamada, and Satoshi Hashimoto, "Development of type 430 stainless steel sheet with high surface quality ", Stainless Steel Word 2004, (2004), 454-459.

^. Izumi Muto, "An Approach to the Modeling of Atmospheric Corrosion Environments and Its Application to Corrosion Test for Stainless Steels", Proceedings of 15th International Corrosion Congress, (2002), No.034.

^. Michio Kaneko, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Teruhiko Hayashi, Izumi Muto, Kiyonori Tokuno, Kinichi Kimura, "Environmental and metallurgical factors affecting discoloration of titanium sheets in atmospheric environments ",Proceedings of 15th International Corrosion Congress, (2002), No.026.

^. Izumi Muto, Eiji Sato, Satoshi Ito, and Hiroshi Kihira, "Pitting Corrosion Behavior of Stainless Steels in Atmospheric Environments", Proceedings of International Symposium on Plant Aging and Life Predictions of Corrodible Structures, (1997), pp.153-160

^. Hiroshi Kihira and Izumi Muto, "On Aesthetic Degradation of Stainless Steel", Mater. Trans., JIM, 37 (1996), 367-372.

^. Izumi Muto, Eiji Sato, Satoshi Ito, and Hiroshi Kihira, "Atmospheric Corrosion Behavior of Stainless Steels and Its Estimation Method ", Proceedings of International Congress Stainless Steels `96, (1996), 327-328.

^. Izumi Muto and Hiroshi Kihira, "Relationship between human perception and breakdown of passivity", Mater. Sci. Forum, 185-188 (1995), 1057-1064.

^. Izumi Muto, Eiji Sato, and Satoshi Ito, "A New Electrochemical Method to Evaluate The Atmospheric Corrosion Resistance of Stainless Steels", Application of Accelerated Corrosion Tests to Service Life Prediction of Materials, ASTM STP 1194, (1994), 382-393.

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